David ewing duncan biography
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- David Ewing Duncan is an American journalist, author, and researcher on new discoveries and their implications for the life sciences.
- He is an entrepreneur and researcher in personal and molecular health data and has co-founded three companies.
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SCIENCE WRITER AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning journalist in print, television, and radio; the best-selling author of ten books published in 21 languages; and an entrepreneur. His most recent book is Talking to Robots: Tales from our Human-Robot Futures (Dutton). David recently wrote a series on COVID-19 for Vanity Fair, which has been seen by millions of readers. David is CEO of Arc Fusion, and a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, Wired, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, Atlantic, and others. He is a former commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and a special correspondent and producer for ABC’s Nightline. He is the founding director, Center of Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. His books include When I'm 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens If It Succeeds (Ted books), Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World (Wiley), and global bestseller Calendar: Humanity’s epic struggle to determine a true
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David Ewing Duncan
American journalist
David Ewing Duncan is an American journalist, author, and researcher on new discoveries and their implications for the life sciences. He also writes about robots and artificial intelligence. He is the author of 12 books[1] and a journalist for Vanity Fair, Wired, Scientific American, The Atlantic, The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, National Geographic, and other publications.[2]
He was a special correspondent and producer for Nightline, a commentator and producer for Morning Edition, and chief correspondent for Tech Nation on NPR.[3] He is the co-founder and curator of Arc Fusion, which holds events around the world for leaders and thinkers on the fusion of health, information technology biomedicine, and on the future of humans. He is the creative director of Cure[4] and recently was a health strategist-in-residence for IDEO.
Early life and education
Duncan was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Lake Quivira, Kansas. His father, Herbert Ewing Du
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David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning journalist covering life science, technology, AI, politics, and culture in print, television, and radio—and a best-selling author of 12 books published in 21 languages. David writes for Vanity Fair, Scientific American, Atlantic, The New York Times, Wired, and many others. He is a former producer and correspondent for ABC Nightline and 20/20, and for NPR’s Morning Edition. He was the longtime Chief Correspondent of NPR Talk’s Tech Nation. David is the Creative Director of Cure Experience in New York City, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Arc Fusion, which holds unique events around the world on major life science topics for top leaders. His latest book is Microland: The Future of Life on Earth (and why it’s smaller than you think) (LittleBrownUK and Harvard U Press)—which in part is about how climate change and human activity is altering the microbiome of Earth that connects all life. Other books include Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures (Dutton) and the bestsellers Experimental Man and Calendar. He was a
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